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. C. W. RAMSAY. APPARATUS FOR TREATING FERMENTED, PERMENTABLE, 0R

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APPARATUS'FOR TREATING FERMENTED,` FERMENTABLE, 0R DISTILLED LIQUIDS.

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NrtiED raras CHARLES W'. BAMSAY, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters' Patent No.313,237, dated March 3,1885.

i Appication tiled March 3l, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLEs W. RAMsAY, of Brooklyn, in the county ofKings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful vApparatusfor Treating Fermented, Fermentable, or Distilled Liquid, for thepurpose of preventing any deleterious fermentation, also for improvingand aging the liquid, and I do hereby declare the following to be a fulland clear description of the invention.

The nature of this invention consists in the construction of a machineso that the liquid to be treated may be delivered into it at or near thehub or center of a set of revolving` beaters or drivers, from whichpoint of inlet the iluid under treatmentis then driven around by thesaid revolving` beaters or drivers and .by the centrifugal action ot'the same, subjected to an infinite number of severe shocks orconcussions, which in the first place atomize or drive the fluid undertreatment into an -exceedingly fine vapor or spray, and in thisattenuated form impart toit severe shocks or concussions delivered bythe said beaters to every atom of the vaporized fluid, therebydestroying completely any germ-life that may be contained in the liquid,and inthe case of whisky and other distilled liquids breaking up the oiland other globules, which are'thereby allowed to permeate the whole massunder treatment, and in this state atmospheric air or pure oxygen, ifadded to the vapor pro` duced in the machine, will rapidly age or ripenthe mass under treatment and render it t for use.

The invention will be readily understood by reference to theaccompanying drawings, ot' which Figure l is a transverse sectionalelevation of the machine. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional elevationof the machine:

The machine consists of one or more treating-chambers, A, within each ofwhich, eccentrically placed, is a set of rotary drivers or beaters. Thesaid treating-chambers A have helical or nearly helical sides andparallel ends, and are made perfectly air-tight, except as to theirinlet and outlet apertures. The said drivers or beaters consist of twodisks, B C, with teeth or arms?) d projecting from their contiguousfaces, so as to interlock with each other, the disks B C being attachedto separate driving-shafts B C and rotated in opposite directions. Thearms or beaters proper, Z c, are respectively rotated in oppositedirections, and consequently deliver smart bloivs or concussions to allthe atoms of fluid received by one set of the arms or beaters from theother set. The drivingshafts B O each have two bearings, D D, out-` itsrespective driving-pulley b c', by which lsuitable belting properlyarranged drives the said shafts with their attached disks in oppositedirections. The disks B O are secured to their respective shafts attheir inner ends, which are separated a short distance, so that theywill readily free each other, and the disk B is a simple plain disk; butthe disk O is made with an annular opening, c2, in its side for thereception of the feeding-pipe E, which delivers the fluid to be treatedinside ofthe said ing c2 in the side ofthe disk C necessitates thehub-plate, c3, connecting the hub c* with the annular connectingplatec5, as shown clearly in'Fig. 2, and the outer edge ofthe saidconnecting-plate c5 is attached to and carries the disk G proper. Thisconstruction forms an interior hub-pocket, C2, as is clearly` shown inFig. 2, and into this hub-pocket the fluid to be treated is delivered bythe feed-pipeE, and from this said hub-pocket the fluid passes throughsuitable apertures, c, in the circular beaters or arms b c.

The beaters or arms b c are firmly secured to their respective disks BO, and project from the inner faces of their respective disks nearly tothe face of the opposite disk, and they are arranged in sets, as shownin Fig. 2, each set placed in annular form and commencing at the hubofthe machine. arms or beaters is attached to one of the disks, and thenext set to the other disk, and so on to the outermost set of teeth orbeaters, each alternate set being attached to one disk, and theintermediate and interlocking sets attached to the other disk, therebycausing each alternate set to rotate in an opposite direction to bothot' its adjacent fellies, as shown by the arrows in Fig, l. Thisarrangement causes all fluid passing through the machine to be side ofthe casing or housing A, and each has forming the said disk with aninner iiange orconnecting-plate c5, into the space betweenv the disks BOLWhere it is receivedvby the` The first set of these disk O and nearits hub. The annular openthrown or driven from one set of' the arms orbeaters to the next outward set with great violence, and the arms orbeaters are to be numerous enough to receive and act upon every 5 atomof material fed into the machine, and the centrifugal action ofthebeaters causes the fiuid to pass through the machine from the huboutwardly, the last set of beaters driving the fluid atoms with greatviolence against o the surrounding casing A. As has before been stated,this surrounding casing is made with helical or nearly helical sides, asis shown in Fig. 1, and its ends are made straight and parallel with thedisks B C, which revolve with- 5 in it.

1n arranging for the proper position of the disks within t-he housing A,care will beiaken to place one side of the said disks in close proximityto that side of the housing next `o above the outlet F, thereby makingthe treating-chamber gradually enlarge from its smallest opening betweenthe beaters and the cas- -ing A at the point mtoward the outlet F, thuscausing the delivery of the final blows of the `5 beaters upon the iiuidunder treatment withY supreme effect, the gradually-enlarging chamber Agiving the required accommodation for the enlarging volume of the fluidby reason of the beaters driving it into an atomic or va- :n porousstate, thus materially increasing its volume.v The outlet-duct F is madeto slope slightly downward and gradually enlarging toward its outletend. p

The fluid to be treated is first placed in a `5 closed tank, G, at asufficient elevation to be conducted through the pipe E into theinterior of the treating-disks B C. The outlet F leads to a closedreceiving chamber, H, into which the treated fluid in a vaporous stateis vo discharged. W'here more than one treatingchamber is used, thereceiving-chamber H of the first section of the machine becomes thefeeding-tank for the next treating-chamber, and the pipe E, leading fromit to the second .s treating-chamber, acts precisely like that abovedescribed. Iln this manner there may be as many of the treating-chambersA as required to perform the vaporization and concussion desired uponany fluid which it is required to treat in this machine.

For such liquids as require oxidization or aging, a suitable machine orcompressor, I, is used, from which said machine a pipe, J, leads to thetreating-chamber A or its inletpipe E, and discharges compressedatmospheric air or oxygen gas into the fluid under treatment, which saidfluid is thereby oxidized or aged while the said fluid is in the machinein a vaporous state.

In introducing the air or gas into the machine, care must be taken tohave the incoming flow of air or gas moving in harmony with the movingcurrent of fluid into or in the machine, so that neither current mayinterrupt the other.

I am well aware that a pair of disks armed with interlocking teeth ontheir adjacent faces and revolved in opposite directions in a closedcase is not new, as such a construction is shown in an English patent onan attritionmill for grinding grain and other hard substances, and alsoin a German patent on a malt-washing machine, the last-named machinebeing provided with a case of' nearly helical form, but provided with anenlarging area opening upward, and hence not at all adapted to thepurposes of my machine for treating fluids; consequently I lay no claim,broadly, to the disks with interlocking teeth; but

What I do claim is- In combination with aclosed chamber ofy helical ornearly helical formation having its enlargement downwardly, and anoutwardlyenlarging eduction-pipe taken as nearly as possible from thelowest part of said chamber, a pair of rotating disks revolved inopposite directions, and their adjacent faces armed with interlockingteeth for striking with sharp blows the atoms of fluid passing throughthe machine, and an4 induction-pipe leading from a reservoir above andwithout the treatingchamber to the interior thereof through an annularopening in the side of the hub of one of the revolving disks.

CHARLES W. RAMS AY.

